Does the Fallout show get less gross?

April 30, 2024 10:37 AM

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the first episode of Fallout (no prior knowledge about the games) and the story is interesting, but it's unbelievably violent. Is this a "brutal inception of the hero", or is it like this the whole way through? I can handle some violence but the story has to be the main thing. For reference, I enjoyed the Last of Us but thought the final rampage was stupid, and I would have enjoyed something like Game of Thrones way more *without* the HBO sex and gore corporate mandate. Is this show just for gun-totin' bros? Thanks!
posted by caviar2d2 to Media & Arts (14 answers total)

Does The Dog Die: Fallout TV Series

Is there excessive gore?

Yes: 35
No: 0

posted by zamboni at 10:55 AM on April 30

Best answer: I don't know if it's for bros, but the comic hyperviolence didn't land for me either, and I have played and enjoyed the games, which are also full of exploding limbs and man-portable nukes and so forth.
posted by BungaDunga at 11:14 AM on April 30 [4 favorites]

It gets more and more and more. If you don't like it you won't like it, it's part of the aesthetic of the game and series.
posted by Iteki at 11:18 AM on April 30 [5 favorites]

Is this show just for gun-totin' bros?

Definitely not.

is it like this the whole way through

Yep!
posted by kbanas at 11:21 AM on April 30 [21 favorites]

Yeah, based on this question I'd say pretty unequivocally that the show isn't for you.
posted by Ragged Richard at 11:23 AM on April 30 [5 favorites]

"Jim's Limbs, the Veteran's Friend" captures the aesthetic of Fallout: commercialized personal calamity, served with a positive attitude. A less-grisly Fallout would sort of miss the point.
posted by SPrintF at 11:24 AM on April 30 [9 favorites]

Best answer: It's extremely gory all the way through. Extremely. I enjoyed the story but had to look away often.
posted by ourobouros at 11:51 AM on April 30 [1 favorite]

Thanks for asking this. My husband and I were in the same situation last night; about 2/3 of the way through episode one, digging it, and then BAM. Yikes. It's too bad because I really was enjoying it!
posted by cooker girl at 1:05 PM on April 30 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Alas, it continues to be gross. The kind of gross you don't expect sometimes, and the kind of gross where you're like, "Do we have to see X AGAIN??"

I am new to the Fallout world myself and I really really liked the show but wow, it is filled with gross.
posted by Kitteh at 1:11 PM on April 30

We didn't make it through the first episode either :( Too bad, because the story seemed interesting.
posted by goodbyewaffles at 1:33 PM on April 30

My wife and I got VidAngel for our kids. We used it on Fallout for us - takes out almost all of the gore, which does tend to make the plot slightly confusing, but I was still able to follow along OK.
FWIW: My wife would generally hate stuff like this. She really liked Fallout, with the edits applied.
posted by Happydaz at 3:06 PM on April 30 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks all. I probably won’t stick with it then.
posted by caviar2d2 at 3:18 PM on April 30 [1 favorite]

For what it is worth, I'm a long time superfan of the video game series, and I'm really enjoying the TV series, but something about the gore hits different on TV, and I think it's to the show's detriment. I wish they'd toned it down.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:30 AM on May 1

As a fellow long-time Fallout fan, I completely agree with Rock Steady's comment. There's something about the over-the-top cartoonish nature of the violence that just doesn't work as well in a TV episode as it does in a video game.
posted by Chuck Barris at 9:48 AM on May 1